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1. Though the Information Technology (I.T) sector provides a viable avenue for securing high earning employment, few women are attracted to this sector. The concept of user-actor gender gap suggests that women are mostly represented as users but not engaged as active members or participants in the development of technological tools. Examine two (2) reasons for this and suggest three (3) ways to encourage women to be active participants in the field of I.T

1. Though the Information Technology (I.T) sector provides a viable avenue for securing high earning employment, few women are attracted to this sector. The concept of user-actor gender gap suggests that women are mostly represented as users but not engaged as active members or participants in the development of technological tools. Examine two (2) reasons for this and suggest three (3) ways to encourage women to be active participants in the field of I.T

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1. Though the Information Technology (I.T) sector provides a viable avenue for securing high earning employment, few women are attracted to this sector. The concept of user-actor gender gap suggests that women are mostly represented as users but not engaged as active members or participants in the development of technological tools.
Examine two (2) reasons for this and suggest three (3) ways to encourage women to be active participants in the field of I.T

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